Schumann Lieder?

Locked
Intergamer

Schumann Lieder?

Post by Intergamer » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:42 pm

Hi, I'm a university student majoring in piano. I need to speak about the lieder of Schumann (my part is Liederkreis, Op.39 - Im Walde) and play it next week, for accompaniment class. I need comments about his entire lieder, about 'Liederkreis, Op.39 - Im Walde' and 'Dichterliebe, Op.48 - Ich Grolle Nicht' (I hope I'm not requesting too much...any information you know about these works would be helpful). If anyone knows more about these works, could you please reply?

Regards,
Steve
Top
Corlyss_D
Site Administrator
Posts: 27613
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:25 am
Location: The Great State of Utah
Contact:
Contact Corlyss_D

Post by Corlyss_D » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:32 pm

Is that all? :lol:

Don't suppose there's a chance your University library would have Eric Sams' The Songs of Robert Schumann, or Gerald Moore's Poet's Love: The Songs and Cycles of Schumann.
Corlyss
Contessa d'EM, a carbon-based life form
Top
jbuck919
Military Band Specialist
Posts: 26856
Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:15 pm
Location: Stony Creek, New York

Post by jbuck919 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:58 pm

You should do the same thing that Dorothy did when she arrived at Oz. She went to its finest city and said "take me to your Lieder." :wink:

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
Top
Opus132
Posts: 317
Joined: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:42 am

Post by Opus132 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:29 pm

Schumann Lieder
Is sublime! 8)
Top
jbuck919
Military Band Specialist
Posts: 26856
Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:15 pm
Location: Stony Creek, New York

Post by jbuck919 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:42 pm

Opus132 wrote:
Schumann Lieder
Is sublime! 8)
Yes they is, and so is mine!
Around them hat mein life revolvt,
"Den Raetsel" hab'ich nie gesolvt.

Sorry, in a mood tonight. :D

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
Top
lmpower
Posts: 877
Joined: Wed May 21, 2003 2:18 pm
Location: Twentynine Palms, California

Post by lmpower » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:46 am

Ich grolle nicht is one of my favorite songs. It is an exercise in irony. Heine's lyrics seem to say I don't complain, but Schumann's music utters one of the most heartrending complaints in the history of the arts. Listen to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sing it and try to rise to that level of intensity.
Top
lmpower
Posts: 877
Joined: Wed May 21, 2003 2:18 pm
Location: Twentynine Palms, California

Post by lmpower » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:37 pm

Im Walde is not one of Schumann's most beautiful songs, but it requires subtlety of expression. There is a sharp contrast between the first stanza, where wedding and hunting symbolizes and affirmation of life, and the second stanza when night and silence in the wood almost reminds one of Robert Frost stopping beside a wood on a snowy evening.
Top
Locked

Return to “ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 8 guests